Wilfredo SÃ¡nchez Vega wrote:
> ---
>> In general, I'd expect them to only display the text content.
>
> The XML, you mean? If not, what's the text content of
> "<foo><bar/></foo>"?
The empty string.
> Only an engineer would think that a generic client is an acceptable UI
> for browsing structured data, even if it is XML "text".
>
> Lisa and some others in CalDAV think it's useful to have meaningful
> resource names in CalDAV because then you can browse it with Firefox or
> mount it in Finder, as if my Mom wants to crack open an iCalendar
> resource and read it for fun. That's OK for developers, but it's
> _really_ bad UI. Never mind localization issues and the like.
It may be bad UI, but that doesn't change the fact that meaningful
(stable) URLs are a good thing...
> ...
Best regards, Julian